Sentence examples for of the elector from inspiring English sources

Because the Calvinists had the support of the elector, however, the presbyterian system was established by electoral decree in 1570.

The other 82 electoral votes were changed on the personal initiative of the elector".

In 1614 he went to Dresden to supervise the music for the christening of the son of the elector of Saxony, and in 1617 the landgrave gave him a permanent post in the electoral chapel.

Riesener was the son of an usher in the law courts of the elector of Cologne.

In 1719 he became architect and painter at the court of the elector of the Palatinate (in Germany).

The elder son of the elector John the Steadfast, John Frederick succeeded to the Ernestine lands in 1532.

Presentation copies sent to the foreign members of the order were reciprocated by gifts of gold insignia from the King of Denmark, the Elector of Brandenburg and the Elector Palatine.

So much for the elected – but what of the electors?

Of the castle of the electors palatine, burned in 1872, only the tower survives.

Given the tepid enthusiasm of the electors at the referendum, he was not entirely wrong.

He was with difficulty persuaded even to address a meeting of the electors but was elected.